Voicing Your Concerns During Your Maternal Health Journey
Maternal health outcomes in the United States are a significant concern, particularly among black and Hispanic women. To address these issues, patients need to be aware of their options and take proactive steps to prioritize their health.
Disparities in How Patients are Listened to and What Patients Can Do to Speak Up
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Make your health choices with confidence
An advance directive is a legally signed document, in which you specify how you want your medical decisions to be made if you are in a situation where you cannot make such decisions yourself
Lupus and Caregiving
To address health equity in lupus, we need to understand the cause of disparities in the treatment of lupus. The health disparity is the differences in the prevalence, mortality, incidence, and burden of disease that exist among specific demographics and populations.
Rare Diseases And Healthcare Disparities
Health administrators deal with a variety of actual cases of health inequities every day, which have lately been made worse by the intervention of rare diseases. Increasing their knowledge and expertise can assist them in identifying long-term solutions that will help underserved populations, and lower the impacts of health disparities.
Hearing Cancer
The shock of a cancer diagnosis can have a significant impact on your mental health in addition to impacting your physical well-being. That’s why it is important to know what disorders the psyche of a cancer patient undergoes, how the mental state affects treatment, and why cancer patients need psychological help and other socioeconomic support.
Transforming the traditional doctor-patient relationship with effective communication
The doctor-patient relationship is the core element of the healthcare system. A fundamental dynamic of the patient-provider relationship includes effective communication.
Health is Not a Universal Language
Many immigrants seek out doctors that accommodate their language and culture. The problem is that those doctors aren’t always equipped to identify and treat serious illnesses.
Including Patient Voices
Patient engagement is the practice of integrating patient input into healthcare decisions and discussions. This can occur on an individual level to improve specific care, or it can be applied to the industry. Many caretakers already implement this into their daily routines.
Complex Care: Discussing Patient Values with Health Professionals
Patient Values might sound like a moralistic term, but it encompasses much more than just a belief system. It refers to any factor that affects how a patient feels about their healthcare options.
Do More than “No Harm”
A 2018 report from USA Today found that the U.S. has among the highest risk to delivering mothers to experience deadly or near-death injuries. Not for unpreventable reasons, but due to skipped safety procedures such as failure to track blood loss.
Tips you can use to stay out of or reduce your medical debt burden
Whipping out your credit card should not be the first instinct when it comes to medical bills. For one, paying with a card exposes you to interest rate issues on the card and can result in a lower credit score if you carry the debt for a long time.
The Dilemma of Mental Health Among Young Adults During Covid
Mental health awareness has become a much more normalized issue post covid considering most of the population experienced first-hand effects of a quarantined nation attempting to continue the course of academics and professional life.
Covid19 Illuminates Communication Barriers for LEP Patients in the U.S
Unfortunately, when patients and doctors don’t speak the same language, patients face incredible difficulty understanding treatments. This results in more healthcare resources being used than required due to more readmissions, more testing, and more extended periods of hospital stays.
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients and their understandings of the American Healthcare System
The system has become so complex that it not only defies understanding but leads to analysts themselves becoming ensnared in its web, adopting its “logic” and language as the only way to make sense of at least some of the system’s features
The trauma of being a child caregiver to an LEP patient
The “American Dream” should not be dictated by the burdens of translating for a family or loved one. It is not a responsibility for any child to be in this position, and yet countless children still have the responsibility to be a “good child who is helping out their parents.”
Underserved communities and the global mental health crisis
The most extensive US-based psychiatric study stated in research that individuals that fall under the lowest socioeconomic status are three times more likely to have a mental disorder than individuals in the highest status.
How Underserved Patients Are Impacted by Negative Stereotype Threats & What They Can Do To Demand Accountability From Biased Providers
To achieve equity in health facilities, every health care provider should take up the responsibility to mitigate the effect of bias in medicine in all levels of interactions and points of contact with their patients.
Stereotype Threat; The significant role of stereotype threat in health disparities
Health disparities are preventable and mainly affect socially disadvantaged people- the minority, making this disadvantaged population face worse health outcomes. Stereotype threat is prominent as a result of the interactions between patients and health providers.
A discussion on healthcare systems and accessible care for patients worldwide
According to the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO), a minimum of 1/2 of the world’s populace can not reap critical fitness services. With that quantity growing yearly the price of healthcare is pushing households into poverty due out of the pocket price for healthcare in step with family.
Advancing Health Equity In The United States
Health is a fundamental right! We help people regardless of income and race attain their highest level of health
Civic Engagements: Thoughts On U.S Healthcare System Vlogs 1-29
Everybody needs healthcare If they do more, treat people like they treat themselves and their family it will be a whole world of difference
Disability Rights & Patient Advocacy: What Government is lacking
The government can continue to provide better services for transportation for disabled people
Improving Healthcare for Better Patient Experience
As a patient I want to have access to all the information there is about me, I’ll pick and choose what’s important and what’s not.
A Patient Story on Mental Health & Patient Advocacy
Change boil down to advocacy, you’re now sick and you have to advocate for yourself
Civic Engagement: Thoughts on US health care system Vlogs 30-49
The way that we run healthcare in the U.S from an economic standpoint it doesn’t make sense any sense. It hurts the people that can’t afford it the most
The Moral Life of Epinephrine in the United States
Medicine isn’t just about treating our bodies, by treating our bodies it lets us be full social, moral actors. Appreciating how complex and difficult that is I think could heighten the respective importance of medicine and medical care in some ways.
A Recap of Cinderblocks5
The Walking Gallery consists of patients whose patient stories are painted onto their jackets. The idea is to connect people and improve healthcare.
Improving clinician workflow to improve patient-centered care
Patient centered care is achievable, it might be difficult but it is attainable.
My Psoriasis Story; Need for equitable diagnosis options and mental health concerns
Elected officials can help with the progression of treatments and cures for psoriasis by making sure that they allocate funding to the NIH and CDC
Life as a Double Lung Transplant Survivor: A Cystic Fibrosis Patient Story
When I aged out of their insurance, I had to focus on getting a good job, getting something that I could support myself, and getting the insurance to pay for those medications.
Empathy, a Critical Ingredient for Patient-Clinician Encounters
There’s so much room for the disparity, and it’s a tremendous ask of doctors and nurses in there wanting counter to try to overcome that huge societal weight of disparities.
Barriers and Challenges for Women’s Health and Social Needs; A USOW2018 Event Takeaways
Monty was in a precarious mental state, he was diagnosed with schizoaffective and bipolar disorder while in jail. And while he was being transported after a psychiatric evaluation he was beaten by four or five deputies
The Itch to Beat Psoriasis; A Patient Story
There are fewer Asians out there and people who are minorities who are advocating. I go to conferences to advocate–with other advocates or psoriasis conferences and there are few Asians